1,235 Quotes About Awakening

Whether or not you go in a positive direction depends entirely on you. You have to be your own teacher and try to figure out what it takes to accomplish your goals. You have to be your own judge and try to get yourself to do the right thing and stop yourself from doing the wrong thing. Take responsibility for yourself. (17th Karmapa)

carry your wounds with pride, Believe in yourself; amongst greatest of catastrophe' You grew into the being you are And I think that in itself, is certainly enough.

If you want God as a tranquilizer, it is okay as an idea, but if you want the Divine to be an awakening process in your life, an idea is not good enough.

The only human disease is amnesia.

So much of what the self-love movement gets wrong is the result of viewing the self as somekind of monolithic and singular entity. That’s how we’ve been taught to experience ourselves.But when we put ourselves under the microscope, when we take a good look inside, that viewstarts to unravel. We begin to experience our inner lives as fluid, dynamic, multifaceted, vast,and surprising.

Similitude of the heart is like that of a telephone operator between man and God.

Life: composted lessons for our hearts to blossom into our souls.

We must ask ourselves: what should we demand of ourselves, given the imperfections of politics and the disappointments of history.

Two days are the most important days of your life, first is the day when you were born and second is the day when you realized that you were never born.